cam a22 4 4500 530092123 CHVBK 20201009195638.0 181025s2017 xxu b|||s001 0 eng| 2017017824 978-0-252-04143-3 hbk. 978-0-252-08295-5 pbk. 978-0-252-05003-9 ebk. (IDSBB)006809292 (IDSLU)001335816 (NEBIS)010970312 (RERO)R009056590 (OCoLC)983824147 DLC ger SzZuIDS NEBIS ZBZ SzZuIDS BS/BE B400 rda PR6052.A46 Z94 2017 s1an rero 810 15 820 15 823/.914 23 LIT004260 bisacsh HN 1877 rvk Wilson D. Harlan 1971- (DE-588)115384544X Verfasser aut J.G. Ballard D. Harlan Wilson Urbana University of Illinois Press [2017] x, 197 Seiten Modern masters of science fiction Includes bibliographical references and index "In a long and productive career J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) achieved his greatest fame late in life when two of his novels, Crash (1973) and Empire of the Sun (1984) were made into acclaimed and award winning films. But he made his start as a science fiction writer, and throughout his life kept returning to sf genres, tweaking and reinventing them, often with a dystopian cast. The Drowned World (1962) is set in a future that eerily foresaw possible consequences of global warming, with London underwater. The Drought (1965) portrays a desertified earth. The Crystal World (1966) imagines the jungles of Africa attacked by a disease that leads them to take in too many minerals, petrifying them, and the disease spreads from species to species. In these and other novels his main attention has been to how different characters deal with disasters that cannot be overcome. He was declared to be "the voice" of New Wave sf by his famous editor, Michael Moorcock, and is widely honored for his psychological exploration of people under extreme stress. In his concrete trilogy--Crash (1973), Concrete Island (1974), and High-Rise (1975)--Ballard took on another major sf theme: technology and human dependence upon it. Again his palette was dark and his plots combustible"-- Provided by publisher "Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery spurred controversy--even legal action--while his autobiographical 1984 war novel Empire of the Sun brought him fame. D. Harlan Wilson offers the first career-spanning analysis of an author who helped steer SF in new, if startling, directions. Here was a writer committed to moral ambiguity, one who drowned the world and erected a London high-rise doomed to descend into savagery--and coolly picked apart the characters trapped within each story. Wilson also examines Ballard's methods, his influence on cyberpunk, and the ways his fiction operates within the sphere of our larger culture and within SF itself"-- Provided by publisher Ballard, J. G. 1930-2009 fast Ballard, J. G. 1930-2009 (DE-588)118656929 gnd Ballard, J. G. 1930-2009 Criticism and interpretation Science-Fiction (DE-588)1098433076 gnd LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh Science fiction, English fast Science fiction, English History and criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc fast u HN 1877 idslu LR u HN 1877 BaJa-06 idslu LV BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 Stoppsignal FRED nebis DS zbzmon201803f wuet zbzswk201804g trun idszbz Z2 530 IDS LU RERO RE61036 RE61036 RE610360001 - BFLA 295361 IDSLU LUZHB LUZHB ZBFRE HN 1877 BaJa-06 2017 NEBIS Z01 Z01 02 2018 A 20771 IDSBB B400 B400 400H5 BeM RFA 88158 NELB4001810 IDSBB 100 1- Wilson D. Harlan 1971- (DE-588)115384544X Verfasser aut IDSBB 490 0- Modern masters of science fiction IDSLU 100 1- Wilson D. Harlan 1971- (DE-588)115384544X Verfasser aut IDSLU 490 0- Modern masters of science fiction NEBIS 100 1- Wilson D. Harlan 1971- (DE-588)115384544X Verfasser aut NEBIS 490 0- Modern masters of science fiction RERO 100 1- Wilson D. Harlan aut RERO 490 0- Modern masters of science fiction NEBIS ZAD50 EBI01 Z01 https://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-0-252-04143-3_01.pdf Titelblatt und Inhaltsverzeichnis VIEW pdf IDSBB DSV51 DSV01 B400 http://www.ub.unibas.ch/tox/IDSBB/006809292/PDF pdf VIEW Inhaltsverzeichnis IDSLU ILU50 ILU01 LUZHB https://www.ub.unibas.ch/tox/IDSBB/006809292/PDF pdf VIEW Inhaltsverzeichnis